B5136 crash in Wirral on 22 December 2020 at 21:58 involving an Audi S5
An Audi S5, a Volkswagen Golf and a Ford KA were involved in a crash on the B5136 in Wirral at 21:58 on Tuesday 22 December 2020. The 38-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Golf was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 2020
- Tuesday, 21:58
- Vehicles
- 3
- Audi S5 and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 53.31334, longitude -3.0533, in the CH64 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Wirral
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020052002658
- Council area
- Wirral
- Police force
- Merseyside
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 5136
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 73 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 12 July 2018.
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B5136 in Wirral, 12 July 2018
73 m awayRef 2018051801798
Serious
Austin Montego crash on the B5136 in Wirral, 3 November 1996
105 m awayRef 1996050248024
Serious
Suzuki GSXR 600 crash on the B5136 in Wirral, 8 April 2005
106 m awayRef 200505AW00581
Slight
Car crash on the B5136 in Wirral, 31 May 1979
116 m awayRef 197905F200795
Fatal
Car crash on the B5136 in Wirral, 28 December 1980
144 m awayRef 198005G403082
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B5136 in Wirral, 18 July 1981
164 m awayRef 198105G401959
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Audi S5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,163 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 3: Ford KA
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 2020052002658 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wirral road accident statistics for 2020.